Ben Spooner.

Founder/Builder · Copy Companion & Mother’s Memoirs

I build thoughtful tools for writing and memory.

I’m a former composer turned product-focused engineer. Right now I’m building Copy Companion and Mother’s Memoirs full-time - shaping them into independent, sustainable products.

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Current Focus

Copy Companion

Product • Copy Checker • Brand Consistency

A lightning-fast copy checker that enforces brand and policy rules using Regex - and soon AST for deeper structure awareness. Everything runs entirely in the browser, so your text never leaves your machine. Teams get consistency and compliance without the overhead of external AI or server calls. If AI is ever added, it will be WebLLM-only for full privacy.

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Mother’s Memoirs

Product • Storytelling • Keepsake Books

The first Mother’s Memoirs book is a collection of mothers’ life vignettes, gathered through podcast-style conversations and distilled into evocative short stories by my wife. It’s a way to honour experiences that might otherwise be lost, and preserve them in a lasting, tangible form.

This first collection will launch as a book. From there, the project will expand into bespoke offerings - helping families create their own keepsake books and meaningful gifts from the stories that matter most.

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Background & Other Work

Beginner to Composer in 14 Days

Book • Digital Product

A practical method to learn piano through composition and improvisation. I developed the method, co-wrote the book, and launched it as a digital product.

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When We Fell

Short Film • Animation • Soundtrack

An award-winning animated short I produced and scored.• Best UK Film - Brighton International Animation Festival (2022)
• Audience Award - StopTrik Festival, Łódź (2021)
• Audience Grand Prix - StopTrik Festival, Maribor (2021)
• Nominee - British Animation Awards (2022)

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Keep The Music Alive

Game • 2D Platformer • Album

A retro platformer where your moves shape a jazz/classical soundtrack in real time - part game, part album, part composition tool. I produced and scored.

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Previously: session drummer (Joy Crookes) and educator (Yamaha, Rockschool RSL). These experiences continue to shape how I design, write, and build.

About

What connects all my work - music, games, books, and now software - is a love of seeing projects through to the end. Sometimes I create the initial idea, other times I step in to shape and finish, but always with the same care: clarity, structure, and attention to detail.

  • End-to-end makerFrom film scores and published books to web products, I’ve taken ideas from concept to launch across different mediums.
  • Creative & technicalYears as a composer taught me how to balance intuition with structure - a skill I now apply to UX, product thinking, and code.
  • Privacy & permanenceWhether it’s family memoirs or brand-safe copy, I build with respect for people’s words: tools that run privately, and stories that last.

Say hi

Always open to interesting ideas or conversations - feel free to reach out.